Team GB aim to top medal table in Tokyo following record-breaking Rio 2016

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We have less than a fifth of the population of the USA yet we came second in the medal table beating China. First Brexit and now the Olympics!!

Great Britain’s triumphant Olym*pians were hailed on Tuesday as the best team in the history of British sport amid a promise that their unprecedented success can be repeated at Tokyo in 2020. Arriving home on a chartered British Airways flight – BA2016 – on Tuesday morning, Team GB received a rapturous welcome at Heathrow Airport, where the first plans for building on Britain’s greatest ever overseas medal haul were outlined. Crucially, it was stressed that an increase in funding for Team GB was secure for this next Olympic cycle, while tentative plans are being made for a Ryder Cup-style competition with the United States that would further raise the profile and sponsorship potential of Olympic sports.

Hugh Robertson, the vice-chairman of the British Olympic Association, said: “Nobody ever thought that we would do better in Rio than we did in London and by the same token there is no reason, given the fundamental structure of British Olympic sport and the way it is geared to deliver medal success, that we shouldn’t have a very, very good games indeed in Tokyo. “Funding is vital. The crucial thing is that it is guaranteed for a number of cycles. It is one of the things that gives us a key competitive advantage. “If you asked after London 2012 if we could get 67 medals, I would have thought that was stretching it. It’s a product of long-term planning. The lesson from Rio is you should have confidence in the British structure and an incredibly talented group of athletes."

The team all sang God Save the Queen ahead of take-off from Rio on Monday night, with BA providing 77 extra bottles of champagne and a three-course menu on a special plane that was emblazoned with a golden nose and the words “victoRIOus” and “GreattobeBAck” on the sides. The 12-hour flight was, by all accounts, a big party, with gold medal-winning gymnast Max Whitlock performing some of his moves on the seats of the plane. Others, including swimming gold medallist Adam Peaty, were photographed in the cockpit with the pilot while some of the women’s hockey gold medallists dressed up as cabin crew. Helen Glover, the gold medal-winning rower, described it as “the flight of a lifetime”.

Max Whitlock shows off his skills

Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/olympics/2016/08/23/team-gb-aim-to-top-medal-table-at-tokyo-games-following-record-b/

 

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How predictable, not one comment!!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

But you still came in second and you don't even play baseball, the greatest team sport in the world.

 

[Leonthecat]

But you still came in second and you don't even play baseball, the greatest team sport in the world.

They can't figure out what to do with their hands.
Poor Borbo

 

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But you still came in second and you don't even play baseball, the greatest team sport in the world.

We have rounders, which predated baseball by several centuries and is mostly played by girls. I love the way baseball has a World Series that only the USA and Canada compete in!!

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They can't figure out what to do with their hands.
Poor Borbo

You are about as funny as a necrophiliac working in a funeral parlour!!

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[iolo]

But you still came in second and you don't even play baseball, the greatest team sport in the world.

A debased form of rounders, they tell me.

 

[iolo]

Every medal cost about four million quid - and they fussed about the cost of the EU!

 

[Mott the Hoople]

We have rounders, which predated baseball by several centuries and is mostly played by girls. I love the way baseball has a World Series that only the USA and Canada compete in!!

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Rounders isn't baseball and it doesn't have the same objective and regardless of when and where Baseball is played it is still by any reasonable measure the greatest team sport in the world as the objective of baseball is superior to that of any other team sport in the world.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

A debased form of rounders, they tell me.

You can throw all the ad hom attacks you want on the sport of Baseball. That does not change the FACT that it is the greatest team sport on the planet.

 

[Mott the Hoople]

You Brits are just not informed on baseball. The reason baseball is the greatest team sport in the world is because the objective in baseball is superior to any and all other team sports.

The objective of baseball is to...go home...and be safe.

I defy you to show me another sport that objective is superior to that.

 

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The UK has adopted centralized state funding and planning of Olympic sports much like the Soviet model. The US is the only major nation sticking with the old grassroots system.

 

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Every medal cost about four million quid - and they fussed about the cost of the EU!

The funding came from the National Lottery, but then you wouldn't be who you are if were happy for once in your life.

 

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Rounders isn't baseball and it doesn't have the same objective and regardless of when and where Baseball is played it is still by any reasonable measure the greatest team sport in the world as the objective of baseball is superior to that of any other team sport in the world.

I would suggest that you are describing cricket and football, baseball is all right but nobody else plays it apart from you lot. They used to sell a lot of baseball bats in Northern Ireland, have a guess why!

 

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The UK has adopted centralized state funding and planning of Olympic sports much like the Soviet model. The US is the only major nation sticking with the old grassroots system.

The funding comes from the National Lottery mostly, one good deed that John Major did at least.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/s...ow-john-major-became-an-unlikely-olympic-hero

 

[iolo]

You can throw all the ad hom attacks you want on the sport of Baseball. That does not change the FACT that it is the greatest team sport on the planet.

That'll be why nobody much plays it then?

 

[Mott the Hoople]

I would suggest that you are describing cricket and football, baseball is all right but nobody else plays it apart from you lot. They used to sell a lot of baseball bats in Northern Ireland, have a guess why!

Baseball is not the greatest team sport in the world because of sheer numbers. Its objective is superior to any other team sport. That is why it is the greatest.

 

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Baseball is not the greatest team sport in the world because of sheer numbers. Its objective is superior to any other team sport. That is why it is the greatest.

You will have to explain that to me, what objective? Seems to me it is to make as much money as possible like most American sports.

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[Mott the Hoople]

You will have to explain that to me, what objective? Seems to me it is to make as much money as possible like most American sports.

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I will repeat it again. The objective of baseball is...to go home...and be safe.

Show me a team sport with a superior objective then that?

 

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I think we should reconstitute the British Empire and the first stage was dumping the Frogs and Krauts. Next we should kick out whinging arseholes like iolo and send him off to Patagonia where he'd clearly be far happier. You can join us if you like although you'll have to get rid of the Presidency, it clearly doesn't work. We can install William as your head of state or Harry if you prefer.

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